Name: 1. A wire reaches from the top of a 13-meter telephone pole to a point on the ground 9 meters from the base of the pole. What is the length of the wire to the nearest tenth of a meter? A. 15.6 C. 16.0 B. 15.8 D. 16.2 2. A rectangular lot that is 60 feet by 80 feet has a straight diagonal pathway. What is the length, in feet, of the diagonal pathway? A. B. 140 C. 20 D. 100
3. The accompanying diagram shows a flagpole that stands on level ground. Two cables, r and s, are attached to the pole at a point 16 feet above the ground. The combined length of the two cables is 50 feet. If cable r is attached to the ground 12 feet from the base of the pole, what is the measure of the angle, x, to the nearest degree, that cable s makes with the ground? Answer: 4. In right triangle ABC, AC = 40, CB = 9, and m C = 90. Find AB. A. 7 B. C. 41 D. 49
5. Figure 1 The accompanying diagram shows a section of the city of Tacoma. High Road, State Street, and Main Street are parallel and 5 miles apart. Ridge Road is perpendicular to the three parallel streets. The distance between the intersection of Ridge Road and State Street and where the railroad tracks cross State Street is 12 miles. The distance between the intersection of Ridge Road and Main Street and where the railroad tracks cross Main Street is miles. 6. A cable 20 feet long connects the top of a flagpole to a point on the ground that is 16 feet from the base of the pole. How tall is the flagpole? A. 8 ft C. 12 ft B. 10 ft D. 26 ft
7. To get from his high school to his home, Jamal travels 5.0 miles east and then 4.0 miles north. When Sheila goes to her home from the same high school, she travels 8.0 miles east and 2.0 miles south. What is the measure of the shortest distance, to the nearest tenth of a mile, between Jamal's home and Sheila's home? mile(s) 8. Figure 2 Mr. Gonzalez owns a triangular plot of land BCD with DB = 25 yards and BC = 16 yards. He wishes to purchase the adjacent plot of land in the shape of right triangle ABD, as shown in the accompanying diagram, with AD = 15 yards. If the purchase is made, what will be the total number of square yards in the area of his plot of land, ACD? A. 120 C. 270 B. 240 D. 540
9. Figure 3 A 10-foot ladder is placed against the side of a building, as shown in Figure 1. The bottom of the ladder is 8 feet from the base of the building. In order to increase the reach of the ladder against the building, it is moved 4 feet closer to the base of the building, as shown in Figure 2. To the nearest foot, how much further up the building does the ladder now reach? A. 1 foot C. 6 feet B. 3 feet D. 9 feet 10. The accompanying diagram shows a kite that has been secured to a stake in the ground with a 20-foot string. The kite is located 12 feet from the ground, directly over point X. What is the distance, in feet, between the stake and point X? Answer: feet
11. A straw is placed into a rectangular box that is 3 inches by 4 inches by 8 inches, as shown in the accompanying diagram. If the straw fits exactly into the box diagonally from the bottom left front corner to the top right back corner, how long is the straw, to the nearest tenth of an inch? inches
12. The NuFone Communications Company must run a telephone line between two poles at opposite ends of a lake, as shown in the accompanying diagram. The length and width of the lake are 75 feet and 30 feet, respectively. What is the distance between the two poles, to the nearest foot? A. 105 C. 69 B. 81 D. 45 13. Which set of numbers could not represent the lengths of the sides of a right triangle? A. {3, 4, 5} C. {5, 12, 13} B. {6, 9, 12} D. {8, 15, 17} 14. A woman has a ladder that is 13 feet long. If she sets the base of the ladder on level ground 5 feet from the side of a house, how many feet above the ground will the top of the ladder be when it rests against the house? A. 8 C. 11 B. 9 D. 12
15. If the length of a rectangular television screen is 20 inches and its height is 15 inches, what is the length of its diagonal, in inches? A. 5 C. 25 B. 13.2 D. 35 16. In the accompanying diagram of right triangles ABD and DBC, AB = 5, AD = 4, and CD = 1. Find the length of, to the nearest tenth. Answer: 17. Katrina hikes 5 miles north, 7 miles east, and then 3 miles north again. To the nearest tenth of a mile, how far, in a straight line, is Katrina from her starting point? miles
18. Figure 4 In which of the accompanying figures are segments and perpendicular? A. figure 1, only C. both figure 1 and figure 2 B. figure 2, only D. neither figure 1 nor figure 2 19. In a right triangle, the length of the hypotenuse is 12 and the length of one leg is 8. What is the length of the other leg? A. B. C. D. 4 20. The set of integers {3,4,5} is a Pythagorean triple. Another such set is A. {6, 7, 8} C. {6, 12, 13} B. {6, 8, 12} D. {8, 15, 17}
21. A builder is building a rectangular deck with dimensions of 16 feet by 30 feet. To ensure that the sides form 90 angles, what should each diagonal measure? A. 16 ft C. 34 ft B. 30 ft D. 46 ft 22. If the length of a rectangle is 3 and the width is 2, the length of the diagonal is: A. B. C. 5 D. 13 23. Figure 5 In the diagram of isosceles triangle ABC, and altitude is drawn. If BD = 4 and AD = 3, find the perimeter of ABC. A. 13 C. 16 B. 15 D. 18
24. The legs of a right triangle are in the ratio 3:4. If the hypotenuse is 10, what is the length of the longer leg? A. 6 C. 3 B. 8 D. 4 25. How many feet from the base of a house must a 39-foot ladder be placed so that the top of the ladder will reach a point on the house 36 feet from the ground? feet